Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc


Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc
From: Olaf Hering (olh@suse.de)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 07:28:06 MDT


On Fri, Jul 07, Tom Gall wrote:

>
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > Hi all !
>
> Greets!
>
> > So I suggest moving to Linux_ext2, Linux_swap, or maybe simply Linux and
> > Linux_swap (since ext2 is not the only filesystem Linux may put on
> > these). Using a different type for swap would help avoiding confusion.
>
> I agree. I think this is a good step. However there's the obvious interoperability
> problems with MacOS, OS X etc... Hopefully Apple's OSes wouldn't do anything evil
> to the partition they don't recognize.

As someone real important said a couple of weeks ago:
Don't trust them.

You know the slogan of Apple ;)

Gruss Olaf

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